COVID-19 UPDATE: This need has been updated to reflect COVID-19 regulations and organizational needs.
You have the power to impact your community one volunteer hour at a time! Show your love for Greensboro by volunteering during United Way’s worldwide Day of Action on June 19. Interested in learning more about how United Way is ENDing poverty in Greensboro? Click here!
Up to 10 volunteers may sort food, pack food bags, sort/inventory hygiene, sort clothing and more during this awesome United Way Day of Action opportunity. Sorted and packed items are distributed to local youth across Guilford County. Address: 3707-D Alliance Drive, Greensboro.
Please read and adhere to the following COVID-19 safety regulations:
-Take your temperature before coming to volunteer, and if it is above 99.1, we ask that you stay home.
-Please do not volunteer: If you feel bad or have a fever or cough. If someone in your household is sick or has a fever, please do not come to the warehouse to volunteer. If you have flu like symptoms or have had recent exposure of flu or Coronvirus.
-Please also note the newest recommendations from the Governor for volunteering. No to volunteers if: Over 65, caring for long-term care patients, asthma, heart disease, immuno-compromised, uncontrolled diabetes, women who are pregnant, no babies.
-BackPack Beginnings staff will be wearing homemade masks, and we encourage you to bring your own homemade masks/bandannas along side of us (6 ft away, of course). Masks will be required to volunteer, and we have a limited supply available for volunteers.
– Please arrive no more than 5 minutes early, as we want to limit the amount of people waiting in our front office. We also need to prep between groups.
-Please do not bring more people with you than the amount you signed up, as we want to stick to the guidelines of 10 people or less at a time.
-When you arrive, please immediately wash your hands and put on the gloves provided. At all times in the warehouse, please stay more than 6 ft apart from other volunteers and staff.
-Please email us if you need to cancel due to the information above so we can open up spots to those that can.
-Comfortable clothing and close-toed shoes are recommended.
-Feel free to bring your own water. There is not a water fountain.
